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Bristow energy team receives grant

Bristow Elementary School's Energy Team is getting a boost to help develop an outdoor classroom near the vernal pond recently installed on school property. Bristow has received a $3,500 Environmental Education grant from SCA Personal Care, which has a plant on Louisville Road near Warren East High School. The grant presentation was made in conjunction with America Recycles Day, which was November 15.

The grant is a pairing of an environmentally friendly school with an environmentally friendly company. SCA is a global hygiene and forest-products company that develops and produces personal care products, tissue, publication papers and solid-wood products. SCA’s Bowling Green facility is the company’s first North American facility to achieve zero-waste-to-landfill status, which means that all of the waste from its production process is recycled and reused. Likewise, the three-year-old Bristow Elementary building is among the most energy-efficient buildings in the nation. Built with daylighting, geothermal heating and cooling, Insulated Concrete Form walls, and other energy efficiencies, Bristow is considered a "Net Zero-ready" building. Its energy usage is so low that installation of solar panels would allow it to achieve net zero-energy status, producing as much electricity as it uses.